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A documentary about BioWare was already two years into production when EA announced the studio's closure, and now that film has become something far more somber than its creators ever intended. Director Akash Sherman called the founders his hometown heroes, and what began as a celebration of an underdog studio has quietly transformed into a farewell to one of gaming's most beloved names.
Shifting to the cloud, Google's global head of data center energy has pushed back on the growing conversation around orbital computing, saying space-based data centers could cost up to one hundred times more than their earthbound counterparts. She also made a pointed observation that the real obstacle to expanding capacity here on Earth isn't power — it's permitting. Politics, not physics, is slowing things down.
And on a quieter note, Apple Music subscribers may not realize just how simple it is to keep their entire library synchronized across every device they own. A single toggle in settings handles the whole thing, which is a small but genuinely useful reminder that some of the best features in consumer tech are the ones hiding in plain sight.
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